On the Up-and-Up

Elevate your mudroom storage, literally, by moving buckets from ground level up to the wall. Once horizontal, the pails become convenient places to corral scarves and mittens, mail, and newspapers -- even ice skates. To attach them, drill two vertically stacked holes per bucket directly in the wall where you want one to hang, then drill matching holes through the bucket bottoms. Screw the buckets into the wall to secure.